famous people that wargame
Cleburn
I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
past at least have wargamed. Tom Clancy and Larry Bond are two
examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
anyone have any other leads?
Any help appreicated. Thanks!
Jack & Co.
Cleburn wrote:
Are you saying that none of the people here on RGMW aren't famous? That
as paying members of the-club-which-must-not-be-named, we aren't great and
amazing people? For shame.
Octavulg
The Maverick
Also, AH advertising used to tout famous people who wargamed.
the Mav
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I understand he actually bought a publishing company that does ASL
stuff....multi-man publishing.
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Dan Blum
Well, there's Curt Schilling, the baseball player, who plays ASL
(and is a backer of MultiMan Publishing).
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Insane Ranter
Was there a prince in some middle-eastern country that played..
bthom37
I heard from Tuomas Pirinen that Janet Reno purchased a painted Empire
army, but no one knows if she played or gave it as a gift.
Brian
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> Curt Schilling, the hall-of-fame Arizona D-Back pitcher.
As a baseball fan, I must interject one minor correction here. Curt
Schilling is still playing thus cannot be a Hall of Fame pitcher. He's
very, very good but he's going to have to be gone from the game for at least
five years before he can be voted into the Hall.
And, to keep this on topic, I've heard that Drew Carey once played war games
(and may still). Also, Diplomacy (I know, not necessarily a war game) was
supposed to be a favorite of the Kennedy clan (JFK, RFK, etc).
Henry
Pat Collins
>army, but no one knows if she played or gave it as a gift.
I would have expected her to go for modern skirmish, myself.
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>I heard from Tuomas Pirinen that Janet Reno purchased a painted Empire
>army, but no one knows if she played or gave it as a gift.
Mental image of the week, I must say.
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i can tell you right now how she wins. she is so ugly that she distracts her
opponents and causes them to make mistakes, at which point she swoops in for
the kill.
and besides, i thought she would use an army that represented her
better...like Orcs...
Blue Raja
IIRC Christopher Lee (Saruman from LOTR) said he used to "collect
miniatures" with Peter Cushing (70's horror movie guy; Grand Moff Tarkin).
He didn't specify which minis though.
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Carl Parlagreco
I'd heard once that Billy Crystal was also a WH40K player. One of them
(Williams or Crystal) was supposedly an Ork player, and the other
Harlequin's (to give you an idea of how long ago they were playing).
Bill Silvey
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Well, Vin Diesel (The Fast and the Furious, Saving Private Ryan, Boiler
Room, Iron Giant et. al.) is an admitted AD&D geek - does that count?
I've heard rumors that Henry Kissenger played Diplomacy (well, he *did*, but
I mean specifically the wargame, not the act of international relations).
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Figs4Sale
and gamer.
He even had an episode in which Miniatures played a part.
A toy store owner had a painted miniatures display in the store window. He was
also an ex-STASSI paymaster. The figs were GOLD. So, some ex-STASSI agents
came looking for him to re-claim the gold, but could not figure out where it
was at first. Then in a scene which would break the heart of any gamer, the
agents just grabbed handfuls of figs and threw them into a cardboard box!
How 'bout that???
Brian Homenick
According to a friend, JOE COCKER once went on a talkshow and while
talking about a recent home fire said the most treasured thing he lost
was:
"Me Zulus!" while holding up a 25mm Zulu figure.
Also CONRAD BLACK (Canadian/British Newspaper Billionaire) plays
Napoleonics way back into the 70's (using big 35's at the time).
Thalcos
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Actually, I heard (and we're now probably getting into urban legends)
that Robin Williams took some tours of Games Workshop, and told
them that he played the Harlequins like "gay elves" and Billy Crystal
would play "Yiddish Dwarves."
I kid you not.
-jc
Ned Leavitt
>Hello Cleburn,
>
>According to a friend, JOE COCKER once went on a talkshow and while
>talking about a recent home fire said the most treasured thing he lost
>was:
>
>"Me Zulus!" while holding up a 25mm Zulu figure.
>
>Also CONRAD BLACK (Canadian/British Newspaper Billionaire) plays
>Napoleonics way back into the 70's (using big 35's at the time).
Napoleonics, huh? He always plays the english, doesn't he? Silly git.
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you or I)
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Realm
No, no, Octavulg, you're confusing "famous" with "infamous".
If you consider the second, we could fill a list. ;)
Scott Michaels
Realm
I was thinking more along the lines of Chaos, Undead, or Tyranids, but
otherwise I agree.
I think with those looks, I'm going to bet on possessed Chaos.
Scott Michaels
Kevin J. Maroney
Nope. He scripted a comic book based on a novel which was also made
into a wargame (_Team Yankee_) and Mattel now owns the electronic game
rights to the Hammer stories, but unless he's picked up the habit in
the last few years and utterly failed to mention it on his web site,
he's not a wargamer.
>I heard a rumor that
>Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time.
I can confirm that Williams was a gamer; my brother ran into him in a
game shop in the Bay Area once. Further details I can't confirm, but I
had heard both minis and RPGs.
Stephen Sondheim is legendarily very interested in gaming, but I
suspect not wargames, based on the little data I have.
Does Jim Dunnigan count as a famous person? :-)
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> you or I)
> Big in the 80's and 90's
Madonna ??
Celine Dion?
Spandau Ballet ?
Geoff
Justin Gaskins
>
> Hi all,
> I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> past at least have wargamed.
No one mentioned that Jenna Jameson lurks on rgmw?
ISN-News
Blue Raja
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Madonna was correct, but you failed to put your response in the form of a
question.
NJH
> Hi all,
> I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
> Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
> anyone have any other leads?
>
> Any help appreicated. Thanks!
historical miniatures. I have an article from 1959 which discusses his
hobby.
David Eisenhower played Diplomacy, especially during the final days of
the Nixon administration, evidently he needed some distraction and he
surely wasn't getting it from his wife. Read it in a newspaper at the
time.
Cheers
NJH
Paul Aceto
one of those old Avalon Hill brochures that came in the games. Remember
them - "do you have a friend with the grey matter to play these games?"
And please tell me most of the people on this newsgroup do know who Cronkite
is!
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Robert Singers
"Paul Aceto" wrote
> I seem to recall an advert that said Walter Cronkite played. I think it
was
> one of those old Avalon Hill brochures that came in the games. Remember
> them - "do you have a friend with the grey matter to play these games?"
>
> And please tell me most of the people on this newsgroup do know who
Cronkite
> is!
Some historic merkin TV figure? Do I win any minis?
DellCry
manr...@hotmail.com (Cleburn) wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> past at least have wargamed. Tom Clancy and Larry Bond are two
> examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
> Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
> anyone have any other leads?
>
> Any help appreicated. Thanks!
Robin Williams definitely used to play. Used O&G for fantasy, not sure if
he played 40K. Also not sure if he still plays, he had a falling out with
the people I know that used to game with him.
DellCry
Justin Gaskins
>
> I seem to recall an advert that said Walter Cronkite played. I think it was
> one of those old Avalon Hill brochures that came in the games. Remember
> them - "do you have a friend with the grey matter to play these games?"
>
> And please tell me most of the people on this newsgroup do know who Cronkite
> is!
I do, but I doubt most will be able to say the same.
Justin Gaskins
>
> In article <3CB5240F...@purdue.edu>, don't-d...@my-email.org wrote:
>
> > Cleburn wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> > > past at least have wargamed.
> >
> > No one mentioned that Jenna Jameson lurks on rgmw?
>
> Who's she?
Some Chaos player. I'm not completely sure.
Jason Gorringe
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Isn't he still alive?
I wonder if his son also took up the hobby?
His earlier character, Callan, was a wargamer, which came out in several
episodes. His character in the Equalizer may be based loosely in Callan
after retirement.
Jason
Jeremy Reaban
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> In article <3CB50383...@mts.net>, Brian Homenick
<home...@mts.net> wrote:
> >Hello Cleburn,
> >
> >According to a friend, JOE COCKER once went on a talkshow and while
> >talking about a recent home fire said the most treasured thing he
lost
> >was:
> >
> Who?
He's famous for doing a cover of a beatles song. Not a very good one.
He is to the singing world what Sylvester Stallone is to the acting
world (in terms of ability)
Chris M. Dickson
<manr...@hotmail.com> writes
>Does
>anyone have any other leads?
Friends of mine who have worked for GW here in the UK bandy around the
name "Brian May" (as in the Queen guitarist) from time to time.
Apparently one of the fringe benefits of the super-VIP tickets to Games
Day is that you might, in theory, possibly get to meet him :-)
I've just done a quick net check to see whether this is substantiably
true or merely folklore. The best I can find is
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=579udn%242n8i%40titan.vcu.edu
and http://www.warhammer.net/maillist/archive/1998/11/msg00000.html .
Not concrete proof, but certainly *I'm* not the one making it up!
While it's not quite the same thing, Mike Myers is known to collect and
paint model soldiers. I would bet one dollar against one doughnut that
he has played a wargame with them at some point in the past.
All best wishes,
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ed
the day of Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:48:24 +1000:
>"Cleburn" <manr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Hi all,
>> I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
>> past at least have wargamed. Tom Clancy and Larry Bond are two
>> examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
>> Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
>> anyone have any other leads?
>
>IIRC Christopher Lee (Saruman from LOTR) said he used to "collect
>miniatures" with Peter Cushing (70's horror movie guy; Grand Moff Tarkin).
>He didn't specify which minis though.
I think Peter Cushing was a model Railway buff
ed
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she does sort of look like fabius biles bodyguard...
Andy O'Neill
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>Edward Woodward, "The Equalizer" was an avid Historical Miniatures collector
>and gamer.
>He even had an episode in which Miniatures played a part.
As "Callan", he had miniatures take a part in many episodes.
Andy O'Neill
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"Jason Gorringe" wrote ...
>
> "Figs4Sale" wrote ...
> > Edward Woodward, "The Equalizer" was an avid Historical Miniatures
> collector
> > and gamer.
> Isn't he still alive?
> I wonder if his son also took up the hobby?
> His earlier character, Callan, was a wargamer, which came out in several
> episodes. His character in the Equalizer may be based loosely in Callan
> after retirement.
No, the late Edward Woodward was not a wargamer to any great extent. The
characters he played in "Callan" and in "The Equalizer" were, but he himself
was mainly a collector.
Many years ago he presented a television series on wargaming. He was booked
for the job because of "Callan", and obviously did not have a great deal of
interest in the subject matter of the programmes.
Each programme dealt with a different historical period, and featured a
different group of gamers playing out a battle. The WW2 battle was done by
someone who was extremely famous at the time, although not now; the thriller
writer Gavin Lyall.
Gavin Lyall's books were all best-sellers in the 60s, 70s and 80s; at least
one of them was filmed, one was made into a major BBC television series
starring Charles Dance, and he wrote the script for the Sci-Fi film 111 Moon
Zero Two. These days his books are hard to find, and he writes historical
thrillers set before the First World War.
He also wrote a book of wargames rules for 20 mm World War Two, called
"Operation Warboard", which I don't think have ever been bettered.
I'm not sure if he is famous enough to qualify for inclusion on the original
poster Clebum's list; I would suspect not.
Of course I haven't heard of the majority of those suggested by other
people, but then my knowledge of American sport is less than my knowledge of
nasal-hair weaving techniques among the !Kung bushmen of Botswana.
Paul Speaker-to-Customers
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> *NJH: Charlie Weaver, alias Grandpa Jones collected and played with
> historical miniatures. I have an article from 1959 which discusses his
> hobby.
Which one? Grandpa Jones and Charlie Weaver were two completely different
people.
angiolillo
D&D was played in ET. Besides, the kind of true or "almost true"
warplanes and veichles of II GM in Indiana Jones movies (apart from
real war movies and TV movies) could suggest a taste for modelling and
wargaming...
Rotwang
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I heard that Spielberg intervewed kids for his movies and roleplayed with
them to see how they behaved and stuff. He found a good alternative to a
screentest.
Janet Quick
eccbf685.02041...@posting.google.com, "Cleburn" dared to opine:
> Hi all,
> I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> past at least have wargamed. Tom Clancy and Larry Bond are two
> examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
> Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
> anyone have any other leads?
>
Well, there RTM Matreiya, he spoke once at the U.N.
There's Cheshire Cat, he has a well-known bit-part in a novel about a little
girl named Alice.
There's OrpheusITU, I think he's a sentient computer or something.
There's St. Jason, he's a saint after all (or a street, I keep forgetting)
I'm sure my comments are totally useless to you. If you get some real
information, let me know.
Steffan O'Sullivan
>Hi all,
>I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
>past at least have wargamed.
In the past? Author H.G. Wells.
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He was never as good as John Belushi's impression of him was.
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Anybody who was alive and conscious in July 1969 should.
Michael Urban
I remember seeing a "making of ET" bit many years ago in which
you hear Spielberg directing one of the kids, telling him to
direct a flashlight beam "like a magic-user's staff". He
may not have played the game himself, but he clearly was
familiar with the distinctive nomenclature.
Craig Little
I do. not bad for a brit.
Steve Hartline
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hysterical!! -but does that make me an evil person for laughing or Belushi
for the impression >;~>
Steve Hartline
and that's the way it is ;) did anybody see Walter recently on Letterman?
Letterman said, after Walter read off the top 10 "ladies and gentlemen, the
most trusted man in America - Walter Cronkite!" Walter pulled him aside and
you could hear him say [para] "Well, I used to try to live up to that
title, but now I've appeared on your show."
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>
> While it's not quite the same thing, Mike Myers is known to collect and
> paint model soldiers. I would bet one dollar against one doughnut that
> he has played a wargame with them at some point in the past.
Based on his interview on Inside The Actor's Studio, the character of Lothor
of the Hill People was based on one of his D&D characters. He says that he
"used to" play D&D a LOT, but I don't know if he still does.
I do know that Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher from ST: TNG) is a boardgamer and
I'm pretty sure he plays Euro/German games.
Scott Alan Woodard
ogm...@earthlink.net
Kevin J. Maroney
wrote:
>
>into a wargame (_Team Yankee_) and Mattel now owns the electronic game
>rights to the Hammer stories, but unless he's picked up the habit in
>the last few years and utterly failed to mention it on his web site,
>he's not a wargamer.
I just got e-mail from Dave Drake that he was, in high school, a
wargamer and minis player, but that while he kept the equipment, he
mostly hadn't played since then. Score one for Cleburn!
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>
>> Hi all,
>> I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
>> examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
>> Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
>> anyone have any other leads?
>>
The band 'The Human League' are named after one of the forces in the
old SPI game 'Outreach', I believe, so it's a fair bet that Phil
Oakey must have gamed in the past.
Adam
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>Hi all,
>I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
>past at least have wargamed. Tom Clancy and Larry Bond are two
>examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
>Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
>anyone have any other leads?
>
>Any help appreicated. Thanks!
the members of GWAR
NJH
> I seem to recall an advert that said Walter Cronkite played.
> is!
LA Dodgers? Didn't he build Disneyland? The famous 19th century poet
who wrote poems about the ACW? The famous radio broadcaster? The movie
actor who starred in "The Odd Couple"? The Hall of Fame running back
for Da Bears? The man who set the TV news anchor standard by which all
others are judged?
Gimme the prize, gimme the prize.
Cheers
NJH
NJH
> Edward Woodward, "The Equalizer" was an avid Historical Miniatures collector
> and gamer.
> also an ex-STASSI paymaster. The figs were GOLD. So, some ex-STASSI agents
> came looking for him to re-claim the gold, but could not figure out where it
> was at first. Then in a scene which would break the heart of any gamer, the
> agents just grabbed handfuls of figs and threw them into a cardboard box!
> How 'bout that???
creepy fellow who ruined the lives of two sisters. At least one of the
cannons on the table top fired live ammo, which of course Mr Woodward
had aimed at the bad guy. One of the better scenes involving
historical miniatures. They actually spent some time showing them
moving the figures.
Cheers
NJH
Xela777
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> In article <3CB5240F...@purdue.edu>, don't-d...@my-email.org wrote:
>
> > Cleburn wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> > > past at least have wargamed.
> >
>
> Who's she?
MMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm an angel!!!!!!!
Alex
NJH
> Does Jim Dunnigan count as a famous person? :-)
*NJH: LoL. Good one. I'll tell you how I know he is now a famous
person.
At Origins 90 he lost his notes for some seminar speech on something
(maybe "Twenty Years War"). A lowly gamer peasant found them and
tracked down Mr Dunnigan and gave the notes to him. The lowly peasant
gamer got nothing for his trouble, no thanks, nothing - not even a
grunt or grumble to acknowledge the lowly peasant gamer's existance.
The notes were snatched from his hands as Mr Dunnigan quickly left the
area, presumably to head for the seminar.
When people do things like that in a public place it means they're
famous.;)
Cheers
NJH
pulgao
>*NJH: Charlie Weaver, alias Grandpa Jones collected and played with
>historical miniatures. I have an article from 1959 which discusses his
>hobby.
He actually handcarved his own minis; they were on display in the
Charlie Weaver Museum in Gettysburg PA for many years. The collection
is now housed in another museum in G-burg (the name escapes me at the
moment, but it's a gift shop cum museum that's on the Baltimore Pike
very near the Holiday Inn -- a few doors down from The Streets of
'63).
It's worth a look -- there are *hundreds* of hand-carved minis and
they're quite detailed.
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pulgao
Same wardrobe, though, hence the confusion. ;-)
pulgao
wrote:
>I seem to recall an advert that said Walter Cronkite played. I think it was
>one of those old Avalon Hill brochures that came in the games.
I'll confirm that. I saw it, too. In fact, it specifically said that
he played AH's "Waterloo".
NJH
> DellCry wrote:
> >
> > In article <3CB5240F...@purdue.edu>, don't-d...@my-email.org wrote:
> >
> > > Cleburn wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> > > > past at least have wargamed.
> > >
> > > No one mentioned that Jenna Jameson lurks on rgmw?
> >
> > Who's she?
>
*NJH: Jenna Jameson a chaos player? You can't possibly be serious.
If you want to know who she is, type her name in your search window
and select "Go." She is a very well known celebrity in the
entertainment industry because her career has had a lot of ups and
downs.;)
Cheers
NJH
NJH
dangerous. Sorry for the confusion. I reread the article and Cliff
Arquette, alias "Charlie Weaver" is definitely not Grandpa Jones.
Evidently he had a museum in Gettysburg, PA for his figures. The
article doesn't say he used the figures for wargaming, but he used
them to create dioramas. That probably takes him out of the running.
Cheers
NJH
Justin Gaskins
> Anybody who was alive and conscious in July 1969 should.
I was born a little less than 10 years later. Though I still know who he
is.
TLTuohy
>If you want to know who she is, type her name in your search window
>and select "Go." She is a very well known celebrity in the
>entertainment industry because her career has had a lot of ups and
>downs.;)
>Cheers
>NJH
>
LT
Christopher Dearlove
<pac...@ihug.co.nz> writes
>And please tell me most of the people on this newsgroup do know who Cronkite
>is!
This is an international newsgroup you know. Yes, I happen to know who
he is, but I doubt it's a two way street in terms of foreign
equivalents. For example which of the Dimblebys (father and two
sons, probably two of them of similar stature in their generation)
have any recognition on the left side of the pond?
And to stay on topic Nicky Palmer, who I believe was big in the
UK wargaming field in the 70s, became a Labour MP at the last
election but one. I didn't notice if he got in again at the
last one (almost certainly unless he got fed up).
--
Christopher Dearlove
Justin Gaskins
> > Some Chaos player. I'm not completely sure.
> *NJH: Jenna Jameson a chaos player? You can't possibly be serious.
> If you want to know who she is, type her name in your search window
> and select "Go." She is a very well known celebrity in the
> entertainment industry because her career has had a lot of ups and
> downs.;)
Just what I said. She plays Slaanesh.
Glenn Kuntz
Christopher Dearlove <ch...@mnemosyne.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uIbuRbBy...@mnemosyne.demon.co.uk...
> In article <a93buj$5d7$1...@lust.ihug.co.nz>, Paul Aceto
> <pac...@ihug.co.nz> writes
> >And please tell me most of the people on this newsgroup do know who
Cronkite
> >is!
>
> This is an international newsgroup you know. Yes, I happen to know who
> he is, but I doubt it's a two way street in terms of foreign
> equivalents. For example which of the Dimblebys (father and two
> sons, probably two of them of similar stature in their generation)
> have any recognition on the left side of the pond?
Are they any relation to the Piranha Brothers?
(Sorry... couldn't resist... :-ş )
Have you seen Little Al?
>examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
>Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
>anyone have any other leads?
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>>past at least have wargamed.
>
>
Not only did H.G. Wells game, he actually wrote up a set of miniatures
rules. I forget the exact name, but the game plays similarily to the game
played between the senior Mr. Potts and Lord Scrumptious when Dick van Dyke's
character gets home at the end of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
Rich Shipley
news:a94mgh$rkp$1...@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca...
Little Wars I think. I've read through them. Close combat is deterministic
(eliminate/capture based on number of figures). Artillery is mechanical
(fling things to make the figures fall over - very crossbows & catapults
like). No dice.
Rich
Old Bear, SOS
"Realm" <realml...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 00:50:22 GMT, "Jack & Co."
> <c.c.s...@pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >Cleburn wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >> I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> >> examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
> >> Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
> >> anyone have any other leads?
> >>
> >
> >as paying members of the-club-which-must-not-be-named, we aren't great
and
> >amazing people? For shame.
> >
> >Octavulg
>
> No, no, Octavulg, you're confusing "famous" with "infamous".
>
> If you consider the second, we could fill a list. ;)
And un-famous, like El Guapo...
--
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The Second Rule is, you do not talk about Spooge Club.
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Fourth Rule: Only one guy to a spooge.
Fifth Rule: One spooge at a time.
Sixth Rule: No pants, no shoes.
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"Cleburn" <manr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> past at least have wargamed. Tom Clancy and Larry Bond are two
> examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
> Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
> anyone have any other leads?
>
Deryck Guyler (British comedy actor from the sixties was an avid gamer.
Something tells me that Edward Woodward is as well, although that may be
inaccurate.
The Mad Doctor
<tha...@NOTSPAMearthlink.net> wrote:
>
>"Carl Parlagreco" <Carl...@starbeast.net.nospam> wrote in message
>news:3cb4efac....@news.earthlink.net...
>> manr...@hotmail.com (Cleburn) wrote:
>>
>> >Hi all,
>> >I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
>> >past at least have wargamed. Tom Clancy and Larry Bond are two
>> >examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
>> >Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
>> >anyone have any other leads?
>> >
>> >Any help appreicated. Thanks!
>>
>> I'd heard once that Billy Crystal was also a WH40K player. One of them
>> (Williams or Crystal) was supposedly an Ork player, and the other
>> Harlequin's (to give you an idea of how long ago they were playing).
>>
>
>Actually, I heard (and we're now probably getting into urban legends)
>that Robin Williams took some tours of Games Workshop, and told
>them that he played the Harlequins like "gay elves" and Billy Crystal
>would play "Yiddish Dwarves."
>
>I kid you not.
>
>-jc
Somehow, I'm not surprised.
Robin Williams did however play WHF with his son Zack. He was spotted
buying up the store at the Vancouver Games People when he was in town
filming Jumanji, IIRC
Grant Kinsley MD
>
Eric K.
Steffan O'Sullivan wrote:
>
> manr...@hotmail.com (Cleburn) wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> >past at least have wargamed.
>
> In the past? Author H.G. Wells.
I was wondering when someone would mention him. Winston Churchill and
Robert Louis Stevenson too.
bthom37
<chesh...@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>"bthom37" <bth...@nospam.ku.edu> wrote in message
>news:3cb4e37c.29102071@localhost...
>> On 10 Apr 2002 17:35:04 -0700, manr...@hotmail.com (Cleburn) wrote:
>>
>> >Hi all,
>> >I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
>> >past at least have wargamed. Tom Clancy and Larry Bond are two
>> >examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
>> >Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
>> >anyone have any other leads?
>> >
>> >Any help appreicated. Thanks!
>>
>> I heard from Tuomas Pirinen that Janet Reno purchased a painted Empire
>> army, but no one knows if she played or gave it as a gift.
>>
>> Brian
>
>i can tell you right now how she wins. she is so ugly that she distracts her
>opponents and causes them to make mistakes, at which point she swoops in for
>the kill.
>
>and besides, i thought she would use an army that represented her
>better...like Orcs...
No, that's what Robin Williams supposedly plays. Surprise.
Brian
Rotwang
> he is, but I doubt it's a two way street in terms of foreign
> equivalents. For example which of the Dimblebys (father and two
> sons, probably two of them of similar stature in their generation)
> have any recognition on the left side of the pond?
The Dimblebys were apparently not much cop next to sportscast legend Des
Lynam ... Just shows you that people have a 5-minute attention span.
Christopher Dearlove
<ki...@enterprise.com> writes
>Something tells me that Edward Woodward is as well, although that may be
>inaccurate.
That might be a confusion with his character Callan (TV series of that
name 60s/70s) who wargamed (Napoleonic figures).
--
Christopher Dearlove
Samuel Campbell, #109
I could say something about Robin Williams, but it seems everbody else has
covered this base.
--
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Cleburn <manr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
>past at least have wargamed. Tom Clancy and Larry Bond are two
>examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
>Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
>anyone have any other leads?
>
>Any help appreicated. Thanks!
I seem to recall that Jerry Pournelle was a wargamer at one time,
but would like some corraboration.
Besides, is he still famous?
ch...@corquuxrupt.net
: On 10 Apr 2002 17:35:04 -0700, manr...@hotmail.com (Cleburn) wrote:
: the members of GWAR
Yeah, I picture see that. Especially in their costumes. What games
specifically? Warhammer 40K?
sam scott
Have you seen Little Al? wrote:
> >I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> >past at least have wargamed. Tom Clancy and Larry Bond are two
> >examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
> >Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
> >anyone have any other leads?
>
I'm fairly sure that being "outed" as a wargamer pretty much throws any
celebrity you might have built up right in the crapper.
Robert Rossney
news:w9ot8.349$T31....@dca1-nnrp2.news.algx.net...
Well, there was a GWAR miniatures game for a while.
Bob Rossney
r...@well.com
Cleburn
> There's me.
:) yes! Saw your stuff on MP3.com. It required registration to
download it so I decided to pass but I guess that makes you famous!
Do you find your notoritety in the music business makes an impact on
your ability to game? Are fans more likely to ask you about the
Sicilian Defense than about your song "Meat"?
The Cheshire Cat
i was going for looks and brains more than style...
Cleburn
especially intriguing to me. The way I look at it, American's have
all this extra cash to waste on gaming so if a non-American is gaming
then they must do it out of the simple love of the hobby!
Some of these names will be harder to verify than others. I can email
that Wesley Crusher kid. He posts to my favorite website Slashdot.org
(news for geeks). I am glad to hear more confirmation on Robin
Williams and a reconfirmation on David Drake. I met David Drake
around 1985 and was sure he was a gamer at one point in his life.
Whoopie Goldburg??? Well, that I must say is the real ringer here.
What did she or does she play???
I used to rent a house near where Walter Cronkite would rent (or did
he own?) on Martha's Vineyard. Wish I had known, I would have gamed
with him.
Garth Brooks lives near me here in Nashville. I would love to double
check that rumor up. Don't know if I believe it but wierder things
have come out of Nashville, let me tell you.
Thanks! Keep the messages coming!
Other Brian
between '80and '86) about a linebacker for either the New England Patriots
or the Denver Broncos that gamed the Napoleonic era. I remember a photo
showing him with a bunch of figs set up. The name Steve Nelson comes to
mind, but I'm really foggy on it, anybody else remember anything on it?
Brian
Tim Marshall
>
> The Rock of wrestling fame said on Saturday Night Live that he "Loves,
> loves, loves to play boardgames." Don't know which games he was talking
> about, though.
Probably really complicated ones like Snakes & Ladders or Candyland....
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> "Cleburn" <manr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eccbf685.02041...@posting.google.com...
>
>> Does anyone have any other leads?
>
> IIRC Christopher Lee (Saruman from LOTR)...
Reminds me of the line from Last Action Hero - "You might remember him
[Lawrence Olivier] as Zeus in Clash of the Titans." ;-)
Lee was also a bit of a "70s horror movie guy"...
the Mav
--
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William McHarg
That may be close. He had his own set of rules. I knew a guy who
gamed with him a long time ago. He got a writeup in the Rocky
Mountain News about it once.
Mac
Andrea Novin
Brigadier Peter Young (VC) one-on-one wargaming I,e, reenactments
Cleburn wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to put together a list of famous people who currently or in the
> past at least have wargamed. Tom Clancy and Larry Bond are two
> examples. David Drake I think was a wargamer. I heard a rumor that
> Robin Williams was a Warhammer Fantasy player at one time. Does
> anyone have any other leads?
>
> Any help appreicated. Thanks!
Michel Boucher
> The Rock of wrestling fame said on Saturday Night Live that he
> "Loves, loves, loves to play boardgames." Don't know which games
> he was talking about, though.
Pacheesi and Snakes and Ladders, no doubt. VG's Vietnam? Hmmmm....
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cannon. If the figure you hit fell backwards, he was only wounded. If he fell
flat on his face, he was dead.
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pulgao
>Kevin J. Maroney <k...@panix.com> wrote in message news:<124abukcivc7rppi4...@4ax.com>...
>> Does Jim Dunnigan count as a famous person? :-)
>*NJH: LoL. Good one. I'll tell you how I know he is now a famous
>person.
>At Origins 90 he lost his notes for some seminar speech on something
>(maybe "Twenty Years War"). A lowly gamer peasant found them and
>tracked down Mr Dunnigan and gave the notes to him. The lowly peasant
>gamer got nothing for his trouble, no thanks, nothing - not even a
>grunt or grumble to acknowledge the lowly peasant gamer's existance.
>The notes were snatched from his hands as Mr Dunnigan quickly left the
>area, presumably to head for the seminar.
>When people do things like that in a public place it means they're
>famous.;)
>Cheers
>NJH
Very strange. I've corresponded with Mr. Dunnigan a time or two and
didn't find him to be thay way at all. Of course, we've never met
face-to-face...
On the other hand, a certain academic (who shall remain nameless) who
once designed a FRPG was very personable when I met him at an Origins
con, but can be a real SOB when corresponding electronically. Hmmm...
-- Steve Lopez
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